"Simon Nicholson Simon Hepworth Nicholson (3 October 1934 - 17 January 1990) was the son of artist Ben Nicholson and his second wife, sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Four years after Simon and his twin sisters Sarah and Rachel were born, their parents married. Nicholson attended Dartington Hall School before studying sculpture at the Royal College of Art from 1953 to 1954 and then archaeology and anthropology at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1954 to 1957. Like his parents, Nicholson lived and worked in St Ives from 1960 to 1964. He moved to the USA in 1964 to teach, firstly at the Moore"
"Mabel Pryde Mabel Scott Lauder Pryde (12 February 1871, Edinburgh, Scotland – July 1918, London, England) was an artist, best known for being the wife of artist William Nicholson and mother of artists Ben Nicholson and Nancy Nicholson and the architect Christopher 'Kit' Nicholson. Mabel was the daughter of David Pryde, Headmaster of Edinburgh Ladies College 1870-1891, and Barbara Lauder, whose father William was a brother of the famous Scottish artists Robert Scott Lauder and James Eckford Lauder. Mabel had one brother, the artist James Pryde. As children they lived at 10 Fettes Row, a north-facing Edinburgh house. Pryde trained"
"One art movement with Nicholson and Paul Nash, the critic Herbert Read, and the architect Wells Coates. The movement sought to unite Surrealism and abstraction in British art. Hepworth also helped raise awareness of continental artists amongst the British public. In 1937, she designed the layout for """", a 300-page book that surveyed Constructivist artists and that was published in London and edited by Nicholson, Naum Gabo, and Leslie Martin. Hepworth married Nicholson on 17 November 1938 at Hampstead Register Office in north London, following his divorce from his wife Winifred. The couple had triplets in 1934, Rachel, Sarah, and"
"Winifred Nicholson Winifred Nicholson (21 December 1893 – 5 March 1981) was a British painter. She was married to the painter Ben Nicholson, and was thus the daughter-in-law of the painter William Nicholson and his wife, the painter Mabel Pryde. She was the mother of the painter Kate Nicholson. Winifred Nicholson was a colourist who developed a personal impressionistic style, concentrating on domestic still life objects and landscapes. She often combined the two subjects as seen in her painting ""From Bedroom Window, Bankshead"" showing a landscape viewed through a window, with flowers in a vase in the foreground. Nicholson was"
"the summers in Britain, painting still-lifes and landscapes. In 1924 Winifred bought Bankshead, a farmhouse built on an ancient Roman castle forming part of Hadrian's Wall, not far from the town of Brampton in Cumbria, and close to the family seat, Naworth Castle. In 1924 Nicholson, who believed that she was unable to conceive, joined the Christian Science movement, which was in vogue in Britain at that time. She and Ben eventually had three children: Jake was born in 1927, Kate in July 1929, and Andrew in 1931. By the time of Kate's birth there were tensions in the marriage,"
"and Leonard Fuller. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Ben Nicholson and his then wife the sculptor Barbara Hepworth settled in St Ives, establishing an outpost for the abstract avant-garde movement in west Cornwall. They were soon joined by the prominent Russian Constructivist sculptor Naum Gabo. After the war ended, a new and younger generation of artists emerged, led by Hepworth and Nicholson (Gabo departed in 1946). From about 1950 a group of younger artists gathered in St Ives who included Peter Lanyon, John Wells, Roger Hilton, Bryan Wynter, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Alexander Mackenzie, Harry"
"Ben Nicholson Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. Nicholson was born on 10 April 1894 in Denham, Buckinghamshire, the son of the painters Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde, and brother to the artist Nancy Nicholson, the architect Christopher Nicholson and to Anthony Nicholson. His maternal grandmother Barbara Pryde (née Lauder) was a niece of the famous artist brothers Robert Scott Lauder and James Eckford Lauder. The family moved to London in 1896. Nicholson was educated at Tyttenhangar Lodge Preparatory School,"
"and 1970s, the two often visiting Greece together. She is still actively working as an artist today. In addition to Kate and her parents, the Nicholson family also produced four other artists, her grandfather William Nicholson, aunt Nancy Nicholson and half-brother Simon Nicholson, and half sister Painter Rachel Nicholson. Kate Nicholson Kate Nicholson is a painter and the daughter of artist Ben Nicholson and his first wife, the artist Winifred Nicholson. Born at Bankshead, Cumbria in 1929, Kate Nicholson studied at the Bath Academy of Art from 1949 to 1954 where she was a pupil of Peter Lanyon, a St"
"by the Royal Academy of Arts in 1907 and 1917. In 1911 Edith Holden married Ernest Smith, a sculptor who became principal assistant to Countess Feodora Gleichen. At the Countess's studio in St James Palace the Smiths associated with leading artists like Sir George Frampton, sculptor of the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and royal visitors such as King Faisal of Arabia. Meanwhile, Edith continued her career as an illustrator. This much is known about the nine years of her married life, until her death. On Tuesday 16 March 1920 she was found drowned in a backwater of"
"married Marjorie Winifred Payne in 1939. They had two daughters. He died in London. Bernard Meadows Bernard Meadows (19 February 1915 - 12 January 2005) was a British modernist sculptor. Meadows was Henry Moore's first assistant; then part of the Geometry of Fear school, a loose-knit group of British sculptors whose prominence was established at the 1952 Venice Biennale; a Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art for 20 years; and returned to assist Moore again in his last years. Meadows was born in Norwich, and educated at the City of Norwich School, After briefly training as an"
"a weekly boarder, later as a day-boy. He had art lessons from the painter, politician and art-master William Cubley of Newark-on-Trent, who had been a pupil of Sir William Beechey, who had been a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He was briefly a student at Hubert von Herkomer's art school, where he met his future wife Mabel Pryde (1871–1918), who introduced him to her brother James Pryde (1866–1941). From the autumn of 1891 he attended the Académie Julian in Paris, but after six months returned to Newark. In the spring of 1893 Nicholson eloped with Mabel Pryde, whom he had"
"of Ben Nicholson. Some art critics have classified it as a surreal artwork, influenced by Pablo Picasso's 1928 drawing of a ""Project for a Monument"", Alberto Giacometti's 1932 sculpture ""Woman with her throat cut"", and works by Jean Arp or Joan Miró. Moore took photographs of the sculpture from four different angles in 1935-35, using dramatic raking light. Moore returned to the theme of multi-part human figures the 1950s and 1960. The work was first exhibited at the Zwemmer Gallery in London, in October 1935. It did not find a buyer, and was exhibited with other works by Moore at"
"Nancy Nicholson Annie ""Nancy"" Mary Pryde Nicholson (1899–1977) was an English painter and fabric designer. Born Annie Mary Pryde Nicholson, she was the only daughter of the artists Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde. She had three brothers, artist Ben Nicholson, architect Christopher Nicholson and Anthony, who was killed in action in 1918 in the First World War. Nancy married the poet Robert Graves in 1918. The following year, Graves started as a student in Oxford. The couple lived in a cottage on Boars Hill in Oxford, which they rented from the author John Masefield. In 1920, in partnership with"
"Yard Art Gallery in Cambridge, The Hepworth Wakefield, and the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Orkney. An auction record for this artist of $1,650,500 was set at Christie's, New York, for ""Sept 53 (Balearic)"", an oil and pencil on canvas, on 1 November 2011. His painting ""Fiddle and Spanish Guitar"", in oil and gravel on masonite, was sold for €3,313,000 by Christie's in Paris on 27 September 2012. Ben Nicholson Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. Nicholson was born on 10"
"1910 or 1912 until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and again from 1918–1919. In 1919 Nicholson travelled with her father, who had been Under-Secretary of State for India, to Burma (now Myanmar), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and India. On 4 November 1920 she married the artist Ben Nicholson, the son of the painter Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson and his wife, the painter Mabel Pryde. The couple bought a villa in Switzerland, the Villa Capriccio near the village of Castagnola on the north shore of Lake Lugano in Ticino. They spent the winters in Switzerland and"
"ward for mental patients. Nevinson married Kathleen Knowlman on 1 November 1915 at Hampstead Town Hall and, after a week-long honeymoon, he reported back to the RAMC but was invalided out of the service in January 1916 with acute rheumatic fever. Nevinson used his experiences in France and at the London General Hospital as the subject matter for a series of powerful paintings which used Futurist and Cubist techniques, as well as more realistic depictions, to great effect. In March 1916 he exhibited his painting ""La Mitrailleuse"" with the Allied Artists Association at the Grafton Galleries. The artist Walter Sickert"
"top sculptor from 1858. It is not known whether he continued employment with Catherine Mawer during the next three years. From 1861 he ran his own business, carving busts and medallion portraits. and creating monumental sculpture. He was also possibly a monumental and architectural sculptor. On 27 September 1866 he married Elizabeth Keith (Bolton 1842 – North Leeds 3 November 1934), the daughter of a paper maker. Benjamin Burstall was a witness to the marriage. In the 1871 Census Matthew was living at 6 Hillary Street, Leeds, with his wife and his child Frances aged 2 years. Matthew and Elizabeth"
"of British Artists (RBA). He spent a period working in Wales before settling in Newcastle upon Tyne. His 1887 painting ""Lighting the Beacon"" shows the role of working class women in guiding ships to shore. Other paintings include ""The Wayfarers"" (1879), ""The Turnip Cutter"" (1902), ""The Ploughman Homeward Plods his Weary Way"", ""The Worker"", ""The wreck of the Hesperus"" (1868), ""Lady Macbeth"" (1878) and ""In the Cottage Garden"" (1886). In 1860 he married Juliana Phillis Glover (1839–1878) and with her had two daughters: Margaret Hannah Phillis Marsh (1877–1931) and Phillis Clara Sylvia Marsh (1877–1965). He married Ellen Hall (1863–1942) in"
"author, and married Thomas Crofton Croker. Francis Nicholson (painter) Francis Nicholson (14 November 1753 – 6 March 1844) was a British artist. He worked in watercolour and oil, and is mainly known as a landscape artist. Nicholson was born in Pickering, North Yorkshire. Nicholson studied with a local artist in Scarborough, before beginning his career in his native Pickering, producing sporting pictures and portraits for a variety of Yorkshire patrons. By the mid-1780s he was also making paintings of country houses, leading him to concentrate on landscapes in watercolour. From 1789, he contributed views of both Yorkshire and Scotland to"
"depicting American scenes, but some abstracts such as this work by Falkenstein were tolerated. During the 1930s she created sculptures from clay ribbons formed into Möbius strips, woven together. These were some of the earliest American nonobjective sculptures. Her series of wooden sculptures called ""Exploded Volumes"" date from the first half of the 1940s. These were made of movable parts that could be combined in different ways by the viewer. She married Richard Francis McCarthy, a lawyer, on July 14, 1934 in Alameda, California. They were married for twenty-two years. They had known each other in high school; they were"
"and with two small circles at either end. Nicolson and his wife Dorothy shared a house in south London between 1923 - 26 with the artist Edmund Blampied and his wife Marianne. Nicolson died in a traffic accident in London in September 1951. He left behind a wife and two children, one of whom, Elizabeth (Betty), is also an artist and a photographer and is married to Albert Irvin R.A. John Nicolson (artist) John Nicolson (1891 in Scotland – September 3, 1951 in London) was a British artist, etcher and illustrator for books and periodicals. John Nicolson, known as 'Jock',"
"by Ben Nicholson who lived locally when married to Winifred Roberts. Brackenfell is still a private house. Leslie Martin Sir John Leslie Martin (Manchester, 17 August 1908 – 28 July 2000) was an English architect, and a leading advocate of the International Style. Martin's most famous building is the Royal Festival Hall. His work was especially influenced by Alvar Aalto. After studying at Manchester University Leslie Martin taught at the University of Hull. In 1937 he co-edited with Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo the journal """" that reviewed avant-garde abstract art and architecture. In 1939 Martin, and his wife, Sadie"
"a medalist, as did his wife, Mary Tutin, whom he married in 1905. They had been students together at Nottingham. He served on the Sculpture Faculty of the British School at Rome and on the Council of the Imperial Arts League. He was a member of the Art Workers Guild from 1916 until his death. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1935, but never became a full Academician. He died in London on 25 September 1951. Ernest Gillick Ernest George Gillick (19 November 1874 – 25 September 1951) was a British sculptor. Gillick was born in"
"Honours list, and knighted in the 1919 Birthday Honours list. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1918, and after working a year on government work in France, was appointed chief engineer for docks on the North Eastern Railway in 1919. Following the formation of the London and North Eastern Railway group (LNER) in 1923, he continued as chief engineer for docks of the North-Eastern area. He retired late 1927. He died on 1939 at his home Red House, Underskiddaw, near Keswick, Cumbria. Nicholson married at the parish church in Lugwardine on 24 September 1902 to Sybil Helen Croft, daughter"
"there. Although she painted less in the abstract style than in the representational, she did experiment with her own form of abstraction in the 1930s. Influences between her and Ben were mutual, Ben often admitting he learnt much about colour from his first wife. After they separated, she lived half of each year during the 1930s in Paris. After her divorce from Ben Nicholson in 1938, she spent most of the rest of her long life in Cumberland, at Boothby where her father lived, and at Bankshead, both near Lanercost. She died in Cumbria on 5 March 1981. She painted"
"and Henry Bacon by creating some of the sculptural decorations for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In 1923, she won the Watrous Gold Medal for best sculpture. She is also often noted for sculpting the hands on the Lincoln Memorial, although this is not confirmed to be true. She assisted with many aspects of the Lincoln Memorial, but French himself modeled the hands. In 1918, she was hired by Nathaniel Horton Batchelder, the headmaster of the Loomis Chaffee School, to sculpt a memorial to his late wife. Two years later, she married Batchelder, moving to Connecticut at the height"
"Baltimore and Washington, D.C.. Her work is seen in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. In 1903, she exhibited miniatures of Miss M. L. Fenton, the late Mrs. Cameron Corbett, and the Hon. Thomas Erskine, younger son of the Earl of Mar and Kellie. She married Reginald E. Arnold (d. 1938), a sculptor. For a time, her address was 7 Gloucester Mansions, Harrington Gardens, London, S.W. She died in Ascot, Berkshire, in 1959, aged 92. Annie R. Merrylees Arnold Annie R. Merrylees Arnold (""née"" Annie Russell Merrylees, 19 December 1866 – 5 September 1959) was a British"
"studies of the composition - before proceeding to the full-size work. However, in this case, she make several smaller works on similar themes. The sculpture develops the geometrical theme of quadrilateral planes pierced by circles from her 1963 bronze ""Squares with Two Circles"" (BH 347). Parallels can also be drawn to the abstract paintings and panel relief sculptures of Hepworth's former husband Ben Nicholson (they were divorced in 1951). In 1966 Hepworth made two slate sculptures, the high ""Maquette for Large Sculpture: Four-Square (Four Circles)"" (BH 407) in an edition of 3, and then the unique high ""Four-Square (Four Circles)"""
"the first Guggenheim International painting prize and in 1957 the international prize for painting at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial. Nicholson married the photographer Felicitas Vogler in 1957 and moved to Castagnola, Switzerland, in 1958. In 1968 he received the British Order of Merit (OM). In 1971 he separated from Vogler and moved to Cambridge. In 1977 they divorced. Nicholson's last home was in Pilgrim's Lane, Hampstead. He died there on 6 February 1982 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 12 February 1982. Some of Nicholson's works can be seen at the Tate Gallery, Tate St Ives, Kettle's"
"of British Modernism. Gardiner's interest in art was deeply influenced by her long friendship with the Hepworth and through this friendship she came into contact with many of the principal figures in 20th century British art, including Hepworth's second husband, Ben Nicholson. Throughout the 1930s and 40s Gardiner was a key supporter of the small group of artists who sought sanctuary in St Ives and she was also an early champion of the Cornish painter and seaman Alfred Wallis. Following the Second World War she encountered and encouraged a new generation of artists, including Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost,"
"She also exhibited in Boston at the Copley Society of Art, Boston Art Club, and City Club. In England, she exhibited in London for over 30 years, at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1927 and 1928, and at the British Society of Women Artists, Yorkshire Union of Artists, and the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art. Her work is in the collection of the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. She married Howard Clay on April 20, 1909 in Dedham, Massachusetts. Howard was a councillor and the alderman of Halifax, and served on the Halifax Education Committee. In 1910,"
"Eden and Winston Churchill, along with a host of literary and artistic figures. They had two sons, Benedict, an art historian, and Nigel, a politician and writer. His younger son Nigel published works by and about his parents, including ""Portrait of a Marriage"", their correspondence, and Nicolson's diary. In the 1930s, he and his wife acquired and moved to Sissinghurst Castle, near Cranbrook in Kent, the county known as the garden of England. There they created the renowned gardens that are now run by the National Trust. There is a plaque commemorating him and Vita Sackville-West on their house in"
"10 June 2015. Newton married Marjorie Emilia Balfour Rider, author of ""Mr Duveen: An Allegory"" (ASIN: B00087LX8S). They had two sons, one of whom was the actor Robert Newton and two daughters. Ann Paludan was their granddaughter, Nicholas Newton, a theatre producer and Kim Newton, a photojournalist and university professor are grandsons. His great grandson is Sir Mark Jones. As well as exhibiting widely in the UK he also showed internationally, including alongside Picasso, Braque and Chagall in the Carnegie International Exhibition of Painting at Pittsburg in 1938. In 1926 and 1934, he was one of the artists chosen to"